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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
Kind of ticked - Turn Tech
- Thread starter Wolf
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Do you have the original soft wrapped one? Or hard cased one? Seems the hard case was the issue.
Charge the battery by kickstarting and riding the bike?
I put a cheap charger on it and it has been fine!
I would, they had a lot of issues with those. I went through several. Hope you can kick start your bike.
2010 wont kick without a battery!
On another note, Joe from Turn Tech e-mailed me today with a few suggestions on what to try with the battery to test it. He was on vacation, hence the lack of response....good on him.
Here are some tests he suggested to run (Copy and paste from the e-mail):
Here are somethings to check if you have a multimeter.
To check the battery.
First make sure the battery is charged (trickle charger at <2A)
1. Take a voltage reading of the battery. Record.
2. Press the kill switch, and then hit the start button for 4-5 seconds.
It may not run it for 4-5 seconds which is another sign that there is a problem with the battery. Running a headlight for 1 minute instead of the starter works if the starter will not turn.
3. Wait one minute and check the voltage.
If the voltage is above 12V (should be close to 13V) and moving up Probably OK, if below 11V then there is something wrong.
If the Trickle charger will not charge do the following then charge and run the test.
Charging the battery.
1. Connect a volt meter to the TurnTech battery (if you have one as this will make it easier to determine if it worked) 2.Connect the trickle charger to the TurnTech Battery.
3. Connect the positive and negative leads of the jumper cable to the positive and negative leads of the good 12V source (non-running car battery is fine) 4. On the other side only connect the Positive of the jumper cable to the positive of the TurnTech battery.
5. Then take the negative clamp that is left and touch the negative of the TurnTech battery, do this for approximately 1 second.
At this point the trickle charger should turn on, this can be verified on the volt meter. The voltage should be more than 10V and moving up quickly. Allow it to fully charge.
If the charger latches off when removing the negative lead of the jumper cable repeat step 5 up to 5 times If after 5 times the battery isn't charging still stop and send me an email. As there is probably an issue.
Once the battery has passed or failed the first test then run this test.
Checking the stator,
1. Check the voltage at rest.
2. Start the bike,
3. Check voltage at idle, this voltage should be higher than the rest
voltage within 20-30 seconds with the bike running..
4. Rev the bike while watching the voltage. It should rise and fall with
the RPM.